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Marcelo
Kohen
Professor,
International Law
Email :
Phone : +41 22 908 58 40
Courses taught:
- Les fondements du droit international
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Judicial Settlement of Inter-State Disputes
Office hours:
Assistant(s):
Mélanie Wahl
Mamadou Hebie
Position(s) at the Institute
Professor,
International Law
Profile
PhD, Graduate Institute of International Studies and University of Geneva
Marcelo Kohen is an associate member of the Institute of International Law and a professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva where has been a member of the faculty since 1995. He has also worked as a counsel and advocate for a number of States before the International Court of Justice and has been visiting professor at several European Universities. He is the author of many publications in the field of international law, in English, French and Spanish. He is generally interested in research related to international law theory, territorial and border disputes as well as international dispute settlement. He was awarded the Paul Guggenheim Prize in 1997 for his book Possession contestée et souveraineté territoriale (Adverse Possession and Territorial Sovereignty).
Areas of expertise
- General theory of international law;
- Territorial and border disputes;
- Judicial settlement of international disputes.
Selected publications
Books
- Promoting Justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through International Law: Liber Amicorum Lucius Caflisch / La promotion de la justice, des droits de l’homme et du règlement des conflits par le droit international : Liber Amicorum Lucius Caflisch (editor) (bilingual) Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006, xxviii+1228 p.
- Secession. International Law Perspectives (editor). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, xxxvi+510p.
- State Practice Regarding State Immunities / La Pratique des Etats Concernant les Immunités des Etats, (co-ed. with Gerhard Hafner and Susan Breau), (bilingual) Leiden, M. Nijhoff and Council of Europe, 2006, xxviii+1100p.
- La pratique et le droit international, Société française pour le droit international, colloque de Genève (co-dir. de publ. avec Laurence Boisson de Chazournes et Gionata Buzzini), Paris, Pedone, 2004, 308p.
- Possession contestée et souveraineté territoriale (Adverse Possession and Territorial Sovereignty) Paris, P.U.F. (collection de l'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales), 1997, xxv+582 p. Paul Guggenheim Prize1997.
Recent Articles
- "L'uti possidetis et les delimitations maritimes", in: Liber Amicorum Jean-Pierre Cot, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2009, pp. 155-170.
- "La contribution de l’Amérique latine au développement progressif du droit international en matière territoriale", Relations internationales, Paris, 2009, N° 139, pp. 13-29.
- “La creation de l’Etat d’Israël à la lumière du droit international”, in: I. Buffard, J. Crawford, A. Pellet and S. Wittich (eds), International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation. Festschrift in Honour of Gerhard Hafner, Leiden, M. Nijhoff, 2008, pp. 441-454.
- "Sur quelques vicissitudes du droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes", in : N. Angelet, O. Corten et P. Klein (éd.), Droit du pouvoir, pouvoir du droit, Mélanges offerts à Jean Salmon, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2007, pp. 961-981.
- "Le Kosovo : un test pour la communauté internationale", in : V. Chetail (ed.), Conflits, sécurité et coopération. Liber Amicorum Victor-Yves Ghebali, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2007, pp. 367-382
- "The Decision on the Delimitation of the Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary of 13 April 2002: A Singular Approach to International Law Applicable to Territorial Disputes", in: Kohen, Marcelo G. (ed.), Promoting Justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through International Law. Liber Amicorum Lucius Caflisch, Leiden, M. Nijhoff, 2007, pp. 767-779.
- "Article 42" et “Article 45” in: O. Corten et P. Klein (éd.), Les Conventions de Vienne sur le droit des traites. Commentaire article par article, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2006, pp. 1593-1614 et pp. 1667-1702 (English edition forthcoming).
- "L’autodétermination et l’avis consultatif sur le « mur » ", in : P.-M. Dupuy, B. Fassbender, M. Shaw et K.-P Sommermann (éd.), Common Values in International Law, Festschrift Christian Tomuschat, Kehl, Engel, 2006, pp. 961- 971.
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